The monks seemed to stay on sufferance, as though they awaited a notice to quit; and in the smile of the abbot, with his beautiful politeness, was the irony of resignation.

僧侣们似乎一直在忍耐， 好像他们在等待退出的通知。在方丈的微笑中， 带着他美丽的礼貌， 是顺从的讽刺。

But when democracy is sovereign, its doubters say, nobility will form a sort of invisible church, and sincerity and refinement, stripped of honor, precedence, and favor, will have to vegetate on sufferance in private corners.

但是，当民主是至高无上的时候， 它的怀疑者说， 贵族将形成一种无形的教会， 真诚和文雅， 被剥夺了荣誉、优先权和恩惠， 将不得不在私人角落里忍受苦难。

Only slowly and on sufferance were they admitted to the province; but when once they were even covertly tolerated, they pressed steadily in, until, by the Revolution, they outnumbered the adherents of the established order.

他们只是缓慢地、在忍耐的情况下才被允许进入该省。但是，一旦他们甚至被秘密地容忍， 他们就会稳步推进， 直到通过革命，他们的人数超过了既定秩序的拥护者。